SEMI-MICRO METHODS, INORGANIC QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS

 H. Holness, Pitman 1954.

This is an essentially practical book to be used "on the bench." The whole work has been thoroughly tested in practice and every experiment described has been tried out with classes of students. The book has been written for use with the semi-micro technique and, although the chemistry applies equally well to all scales of working, the quantities used in the various tests are worded for the semi-micro scale. In the main, the scheme of analysis follows the conventional, but there are minor innovations, published here for the first time.

150 pages, covering Reagents, Removal of Interfering Anions (you’ve got to know your Anions for this one!), Separations and Acid Radicals – I used to drink with a few of those.

The dust jacket is rubbed, chipped, split and creased and, aesthetically speaking, it carries a zero rating.  The cover boards are reasonably good however, and the pages are clean and tightly bound. The book was designed for students sitting a fairly high standard when it was written, up to and including the B.Sc. general examination in chemistry for London University, so it is not for people who don’t take their study seriously.